Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
I’m continually impressed with the Pro-100. It was bundled free with a DSLR I bought years ago. I’ve printed a ton of borderless 13×19 photos on it, and the print quality and longevity have been really good.
I’ve never had an ink cartridge dry out if I don’t use it for a few months, which I can’t say about any other inkjet I’ve owned. The cost of the ink is the only drawback, but compared with the rising cost of prints that’s less of an issue these days.
Sent some last-minute holiday prints to Walgreens, because an order from Adorama’s Printique or Bay Photo wouldn’t arrive in time. Half of them were ruined by the color correction Walgreens does while printing.
Ended up printing them on the Canon Pixma Pro-100 we have here at home and they turned out much nicer.
Getting boosted…
Took my daughters (9 and 12) to a Today at Apple session called Code Your First App. They loved it! Starts with a SwiftUI tab bar demo app in Swift Playgrounds and they spend an hour customizing and adding features. This isn’t the first time they’ve coded in Swift, but to see their eyes light up as their code change is updated on the canvas is priceless.
I used Undo Send in Mail for the first time just now. It’s not something I’ll use often, but it’s nice to have the option.
This past week has been full of ups and downs. It’s been emotionally draining. Here’s hoping some loose ends get wrapped up next week.
Flight Simulator Standard Edition is 50% off at Target for Black Friday. Couldn’t resist picking it up. See you in the virtual skies…
I was wondering why my IPsec VPN was so slow between two endpoints running pfSense. Ended up changing the MSS cap from the default 1400 down to 1350 and now I’m getting 10x the bandwidth.
So great to see lots of hobby posts on Mastodon and not so many political posts. It’s a breath of fresh air.
It’s funny seeing all the new Mastodon apps, just like the first few years of Twitter.
Somehow I only learned of The Composable Architecture a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why I hadn’t seen anything about it before. Making my way through a tutorial and I’m generally impressed. I could see myself using it in a future project.
So the question is: what new way will elon find to ruin Twitter over the weekend?
The new AMD Epyc 9664 is a beast!
Today marks 20 years since I first publicly released XRG. It continues to be the first app I install on a new Mac, and I still enjoy improving it after all these years…
https://www.starcoder.com/wordpress/2022/10/20-years-of-xrg/
There’s a lot of things I’ll miss about California. This is not one of them…
Starting my day in the California desert where temps are in the 80s and ending it in the Rockies where temps are in the 40s. Can’t decide whether to wear shorts or pants.
Think I’ll go with shorts because this might be my last chance to wear them this season.
Here’s another one of my favorite shots from Yosemite a couple weeks ago. It’s a shot of Sentinel Bridge from the riverbed of the Merced. One reason I like it is because you can’t get this shot in the summer months when the river is full…you’d be in 3-4 feet of water.
Printed this one out to hang in the new house.
Me vs bears
Checkmate
Huh… Just felt an earthquake. Nothing major, just barely strong enough to make the house creek and the dogs start barking. Ended up being a 3.1 magnitude about 25 miles west of here.